The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Barack is furious!
Since becoming the helmsman of the United States, Barack has nominally become the most powerful person in the United States. However, only when he reached this position did he realize that this position was not easy to sit in.

It looks very glamorous, but it's just an appearance.

In fact, in the United States, the president's power is not as great as imagined.

This is also a major feature of the United States.

It is said that the United States has a separation of powers. This is not just talk, but makes a lot of sense.

The US president has little power domestically. The federal government is formed by the states and is not the superior of the state governments. This means that the US president has no power to appoint or remove governors. Without the power to appoint or remove governors, there is naturally no deterrent power. It is normal for governors and state officials to ignore the president. It is not uncommon for governors and state officials to curse the US president. It happens every year.

Every state has a National Guard, and these National Guards belong to the state, not the U.S. Department of Defense. That is to say, under normal circumstances, the President of the United States cannot dispatch and command the National Guards of various states.

Of course, this does not mean that the President of the United States has no power. The President of the United States has great power in foreign affairs because diplomacy and military affairs are the responsibility of the federal government, and the United States is the world's number one power!

The president may not be a puppet of the big capitalists, but it is indeed difficult to deal with the big capitalists under the American system.

Why did Barack firmly lend a helping hand to Wall Street and why large amounts of money flowed to Wall Street? In addition to the importance of finance to the United States, there is another important aspect, that is, interest!
After a US president leaves office, his family's wealth often soars dramatically. This is not because they are good at business, but because it is full of interests.

Barack wants to carry out medical reform because the benefits are so staggering.

Even if you make a little effort accidentally, you can easily make hundreds of millions of dollars. If you are a little greedy, making a billion dollars is not a difficult task.

Look at George Walton. During his eight years in office, the Bush family’s wealth more than doubled.

People say that America is democratic and free, and that there are no aristocratic families. That is just nonsense.

The Abrams family, which has three generals in one family; the Clark family, which has three generals in one family; the Bradley family, which has five stars and four stars
And the Douglas family!

MacArthur said my father was a lieutenant general because the highest military rank in the United States at that time was lieutenant general.

The Patton family is a nine-generation military family. The founder of the Patton family led 5,000 people during the Revolutionary War, when the Continental Army had only tens of thousands of people. His grandfather and six brothers were all colonels and regiment commanders during the Civil War.
This is just the military. In the political arena, the United States has had a total of 44 presidents so far, 35 of whom are the five blue-blooded aristocrats from New England, also known as the Five Heroes of the Declaration of Independence. Even Barack Obama, who created a people-friendly, grassroots counterattack, is one of them. His earliest origin can be traced back to the boss of Qichang Foreign Company.

There is even a saying in the United States: Every president of the United States must have an ancestor who was on the Mayflower!
"Damn George Walton!" Barack couldn't help but curse George Walton again.

He felt that George Wharton was the culprit for his current embarrassing situation.

If George Walton had not rashly launched two medium-sized wars, the United States would not have become what it is today.

Every year, the US military expenditure is an astronomical figure. As for the 10 trillion US debt, the annual interest is not small. Add to that the financial crisis. It's like a big pit, and Barack just jumped into it. No matter what Barack does, he is always scolded!

He was scolded for using large sums of money to rescue the market, for making big companies 'too big to fail', and for causing inflation to soar, and he was scolded
He proposed medical reform and was also criticized for taking benefits from pharmaceutical giants and large hospitals.

When he visited Europe, he was still scolded for pushing the United States to the opposite side of South America and causing the United States to lose South America. Energy prices are falling all over the world, but because the United States imports a considerable proportion of its oil from South America, his words caused the price of oil imported from South America to rise sharply, so that the price of oil at American gas stations soared.
He just said that the United States plans to deploy medium-range ballistic missiles and the THAAD system in Japan. In fact, he just wanted to talk big to let the people know that he is not a weak person. As a result, someone slapped him in the face.

This laser didn't just hit an abandoned satellite.

It is telling the United States that all your satellites in the sky can be destroyed at once. Even if you deploy "intermediate-range ballistic missiles", it will be useless because you can shoot them down without missing a single one.

As for the US missile defense system, it is indeed very advanced and can defend against most of the missiles in the world.

There are only a few missiles in the world that can break through the US missile defense system.

And these models happen to be in the hands of the two opposite countries.

Barack became furious when he thought of the military's warning to him.

You have to know that he is the President of the United States. In name, he is the head of the U.S. federal government and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. As president, he theoretically has a series of powers such as appointing federal government ministers, nominating a series of administrative officials, approving/rejecting parliamentary bills, deploying armed forces, etc.

But this is only in name and theory!

Before this, the president who truly possessed the greatest power was Roosevelt!
Many countries believe that Roosevelt is the most outstanding president of the United States. They believe that it was Roosevelt who helped the United States achieve world hegemony and created the world order after World War II, namely the Yalta system.

Many people believe that if the United States wants to change its current situation and save itself from the economic crisis, another Roosevelt must emerge.

But in fact, since the death of Roosevelt, the United States has tried every means to adjust its systems, and these systems are almost all designed around one point: when the empire is on the verge of destruction, there will not be a second Roosevelt to save it.

According to current netizens, Roosevelt was a ruthless man who could control the surging public opinion with one hand, hold back the restless army with the other hand, and step on the factory owners with one foot and the bankers with the other foot.

At that time, Roosevelt required the capitalists in the United States, a capitalist country, to pay 90% taxes!

As for why American capitalists are willing to pay 90% tax? Of course, it is because those who are unwilling to do so have been physically eliminated!
If it weren't for the comparison of hanging street lamps and shaving people's heads, are American billionaires crazy?
The fireside chat that everyone knows about is: President Luo, who has limited mobility, moved the major tycoons with his love and sincerity. Seeing that President Luo was suffering from illness and still working day and night, they gave him US dollars.

A true fireside chat: Commander Luo chats with them on the surface, but secretly has already thought of where to bury them if they disobey!

There is an interesting story here. On the day Roosevelt died, the Brazilian ambassador to the United States went to Buffett's father's house and found that the old man was opening champagne to celebrate the death of President Roosevelt! (End of this chapter)